Dear Vipin KUMAR, In message <4b9f89b2.8040...@st.com> you wrote: > > Now, we want to support this in sw in such a way that we have a single > image for linux for all possible configurations. We intend to do this > though bootloader (u-boot in this case)
This may be possible, but it is not wise, nor the officially supported mode of operation in U-Boot. Please see bullet 2 at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/DesignPrinciples#KeepFast and related entries - U-Boot is not supposed to initialize things it does not need for it's own operation. > SPEAr has an arm platform and linux-arm doesn't seem to support peripheral > multiplexing in the way we want. Though, I could see some stuff fo that > kind in ppc platform supported by u-boot to pass device information to > linux We use the device tree to do things like this. > Do we have a similar way for arm based platforms as well or any other > suggestions. Please check out Grant Likely's work to bring the device tree to ARM Linux. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted -- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot